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Only problem with this is youl wind up buying three tickets for one person to enjoy the game. If you go in knowing that, and still want to spend the $150+, that's fine. To me, that's a lot of money to pay for a picture of your family in front of the stadium.

Do you have kids? Because I have a 1 year old now. We've taken him to 2 hockey games, the spring game, and a baseball game.

With a kid, you need constant distraction and stimulation. New toys, moving around, etc. when your cramped in a row packed like sardines in a stadium that doesn't allow you to bring anything in, where your goal is to typically to stay still and watch something, let's just say that doesn't fly.

1.) even in a world where utilities are primarily coal powered, electric cars have a significantly lower carbon footprint than gas powered.

2.) many utilities are in the process of shifting away from coal generation to renewables and natural gas. DTE just announced plans to shut down most of their coal plants by 2030 and all of then in the next 25 years.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find parents steering their kids towards smoking at young ages, which is more of the issue here. The death of football isn't going to come from curretn players retiring early, it's going to come as parents stop letting their children play youth football and the future stars of tomorrow wind up playing basketball, baseball or soccer.

There's too much money at Power 5 schools, but I wouldn't be surprised if you see some of the D2, 3 or even FCS may consider cancelling their programs in the hear future.

Y'all realize many other conferences have their tournaments over at this point, so it's already a tested model. I don't think it's the right decision, and i wouldn't recommend the B1G modelling off of the MEAC, but people who can't wrap their noodle around how this will work really aren't paying attention to college basketball more broadly.

It's very grating to here Brian pronounce it wrong, but I think it's a reach to say it's a shopping destination for NYers. Was way more likely to head upstate to Woodberry Commons or out to LI for Roosevelt Field Mall.

No one should be put down for advancing their education, no matter where you go. That said, there's certainly a widely held perception that the quality of education is higher on the Ann Arbor campus vs. Flint / Dearborn. Whether that's true or not is a different story, but if I'm not mistaken the admissions criteria for most programs is also more stringent in Ann Arbor.

I can speak more to the business school, but the quality, breadth, and diveristy of recruiters in Ann Arbor is far greater compared to the other campuses.

He's not going to forbid him to go to a JUCO, and then once he's there, he can go wherever will have him the year after. Saban (or any coach), can only have influence on the first place you transfer, not subsequent transfers.

I saw this and thought about posting it, but also feared we wind up in a political rabbit hole.

As to you point regarding speaking at a convention vs. going to the White House post championship, with a White House visit you're going regardless of who the sitting president is (unless you're Tim Thomas). It doesn't imply support for the President or his /her political party. Speaking at a convention for a candidate at a minimum implies support, and most time will overtly pledge support.

It's great that Brock is walking and doing so well after that horrific accident, and I think we all should be happy for him and proud of the role that Michigan played in helping that process. A post about him speaking at a political convention is going to be real hard to toe the no politics line though.

Now that we have 9 conf games, you alternate between years with 5 home games, and years with 4. If we switched home / road with MSU, we go from having 5 home conf games in odd years to having it in even years.

Yes, It stinks that we're playing our three rivals on the road the same year, but I'd guess we asked for this, and here's why.

Given the 9 game conference schedule, we now alternate between 5 home / 4 road and 4 home / road conf games per year. 2018 is a year we have 5 conf home games (PSU, Wisc, IU, Maryland, Nebraska), so it's easier to have a non-conf road game that year.

If we played home vs. ND in 2018, we'd only have 6 home dates (4 conf, 2 non-conf) in 2019, which I'd guess is out of the question.

Yes, It stinks that we're playing our three rivals on the road the same year, but I'd guess we asked for this, and here's why.

Given the 9 game conference schedule, we now alternate between 5 home / 4 road and 4 home / road conf games per year. 2018 is a year we have 5 conf home games (PSU, Wisc, IU, Maryland, Nebraska), so it's easier to have a non-conf road game that year.

If we played home vs. ND in 2018, we'd only have 6 home dates (4 conf, 2 non-conf) in 2019, which I'd guess is out of the question.

So, I'm apparently living WDs dream life. Not sure if that makes me hapy or sad. Though, when he says season tickets, he's probably including field hockey and water polo, which isn't int he cards for me.

I know the B1G is trying to contour up a RU /UMD rivalry, or maybe even one with PSU, but this all the trappings of becoming an "Illinois Situation" where Rutgers fans think they're our rival, and we're all like "WTF mate, not interested"

How far does your homerism go? How can you justify telling a kid he can't play for you, but you also can't play at these places either.

In any other scenario you play this out it sounds totally absurd. If you get fired from your job, your old employer can't limit where you work next (even if you did have a non-compete. You can't divorce your husband / wife and then tell them who they can date.

2.) I think you need to have more differentiation towards the bottom. Teams in the 100s are different than teams in the 300s

3.) this probably hurts the mid to low majors in that it's hard for them to get bigger wins, so unless you centralize scheduling (which teams will never give up control over), it makes it tough to adopted by them

...but I wouldn't refer to it as "his business". His Business is The Related Companies, which had me fairly intrigued to read about racism in his real estate business. I'd have called it his team, or mention the Dolphins by name, but what do I know.

What do you know that I don't about our linebacker situation, since I think that's a pretty big question mark right now. Here's how I would rank my "confidence" in the defense at this point for next year

You need to come back to reality if you seriously think your comments on a message board have any impact on a game already in progress. That's some next level over-inflated sense of self importance ish right there.

The expected ROI is the same for buying one ticket vs. multiple tickets since each ticket has equal odds of winning. A truly rational person (which only exists in economics text books) would either not play or buy every possible combination of ticket (eROI >investment, buy them all, eROI<investment, buy none).

In reality, even at this high a jackpot, your ROI is < than your investment, but it's getting close. Not better than a crappy savigns account, but it's not as stark as you make it seem.

Most people only talk about the three way tie scenario lien it's the only way Michigan gets in. There's also a very real possibility that MSU looses 2 games (OSU and say, Penn St). If we win out there are a couple of ways things go well for us.

It's moments like this where the rivalry is fun, and this is what you want out of college sports. Not moments where you are getting physically / verbally abused for going to a game in a rival stadium.

Kudos to the bride for winning the battle and getting the wedding into the Big House. He'll have his one defiant picture to remember, but he also had to put up with a ton of crap from friends and family inviting them to his wedding at the Big House.

The only one i would add is Taste Kitchen. It opened a few months ago is now tied for my favorite in A2 with Pacific Rim. The Chop House (along with all of the Main St Ventures restaurants) is highly overrated, and over priced. I don't mind paying top $ for a steak, but Chop House is pretty pedestrian.

In Paris, go to Real Entrecôte. Fairly reasonable in terms of pricing and amazing food. Bistro Paul Bert is also great, but that's a little more expensive. Septime was probably the second best meal I've ever had, but that's also really pricey

I don't know what crappy wedding bands you've seen, but a good band at a wedding is amazing. They're also really expensive, running $5k plus, which makes it cost prohibitive. We had a DJ, but my one regret is not getting a band.

I think it depends on what you are going to do. If you are going to do something relaxing, like lying on a beach, that's perfect for right after. You are going to want the break. We waited a few months to go on ours (a 2 week tour of Europe), and we were both happy we did since it was a lot of travelling around. After the wedding is over, all you're going to want to do is relax.

...but recognize what's important to you and spend money on that. What I able to (begrudgingly) get the wife to agree to was to have her ask herself. "Have you ever been to a wedding and noticed item X, and was it importantl". For example. no reason to upgrade to fancy silverware, flatware, glassware. I nice wedding glass doesn't make or break a wedding.

In rugby, the person who scores doesn't have to kick the extra point. However, you have to kick it parallel to where you scored the try, so if you scored right next to touch line (aka sideline), it creates some really sharp angled kicks.

I'd love to see that, but it's harder in football given the fact that you have offensive lineman extended on both sides of the center.

We had a top 25ish recruit in Chatman, and probably one of the steals of year in Dawkins (not to mention Rahk and Doyle who were contributors as freshmen) this year, and Wagner would have been a 4/5 star recruit and we are still in on 2 other top recruits.

We'll never be Kansas / Kentucky / Duke. Other than that, I think we're doing pretty well

Thanks for posting. I thought the same thing when I watched it on my DVR on Friday and was shocked no one had posted about it. Apparently it's a bit of a Zona Peligrosa to talk about that around here though.

I graduated from Ross a few years back, and I would say it was one of the single greatest decisions I made in life. (I also applied to Harvard, Kellogg, and Haas: was accepted at Haas, not at the others)

That being said, you need to really make sure you've thought the decision through. I would say full time is 1000% the way to go if you a.) have the means to do so and b.) are looking to switch careers. The beneifts of an MBA are 1.) the network you make while you're there 2.) the opportunities / recruiters that come to campus and 3.) the quality of education you receive, in that order. Part time programs really make it hard to excel at the first one.

You also want to understand what you're thinking about doing after school. Ross is pretty diverse in terms of oppportunities (finance, consulting, marketing, etc.), but other schools are much more focused, both by funciton and by region. Make sure any school you apply to will set you up for success after graduation.

On that point, once you get outside of the top 15-20 schools, it's gets much harder to justify the expense (both money you spend and the lost income for 2 years). If you are going to "check the box", so to speak, and already have your post MBA job lined up, it's less of an issue, but you need to think about what doors will an MBA from school X really open up.

Bottom line is it will be an amazing time, no matter where you go: just make sure you're getting the return you're hoping for.

But the more I think about it, the more plausible it seems. If you assume it's an 8 year contract, that's $125m a year.

Maybe 1/10 of that would be true football related revenue (tickets, apparel, concessions), but the overwhelming majority would be in increased donations. I'm not sure how correlated giving is to football success, but I'm sure it's significant.

Now, if your baseline is a team that's 5-7 in perpetuity, vs a JH coached team that you are hoping is competing for Big Ten Championships, it's not out of the question. The better analysis would be JH vs your next best option (Miles, Mullen) which I would assume wouldn't be a $1B difference.

You wouldn't attibute something left in the comments section of the NY Times or any other news source to the actual news source, would you? I get that the lines maybe a little more blurred on a blog, but the lines do still exist.

He said use a timeout to "buy" Gardner back into the game. If a players loses his helmet on a play he has to sit out a play, unless the team uses a timeout, causing him to not have to miss a play. This is different than an injury, where if an official timeout is called due to a player being hurt, that injured player has to sit out a play regardless of whether you call a timeout or not.

It what Brian is saying on Twitter is true (which, sadly is probably true) then I don't see how Brandon can be kept on. Trying to massage a report (at best) or convince people to lie (at worst) about someone's health to cover your own skin is reprehensible. Fire Brandon.

I will say this, at least the blog conspiracy theorists are now blaming the same things on Michigan staff members that usually reserved for Urban / MSU / the SEC. Have to respect the consistency. We have that going for us, which is nice.

Of all of the insane indictments of Hoke on this board, this may may take the cake. He didn't work for this job? He spent many years rising up the coaching ranks. His performance isn't where it needs to be, but he wasn't handed this job on a silver plate. He worked hard to get here.

We also learned the author isn't really good at Math. a .651 winning percentage isn't "barely over .500". Not good by any means, but also not an accurate depiction. Why let the facts get in the way of a good story though I guess.

I can agree that most of his time should be focused on football / basketball / hockey.

But are you now saying that it was DB who led the renovations? Didn't catch that in your last post.

And not sure I agree with making 2 of 3 worse. You're argument for hockey is about the arena, then you say the only reason basketball is better is coaches. Is crisler not better than it was in 2010-2011? And while I'm guessing we agree with the implementation of GA seating was a disaster last year (I do like the idea, but that's a different argument), I think the program is in better shape now than under RR. Not where it should be, but comparatively better.

1.) Were you at Yost before and after the renovations? It kept the charm of the small arena while adding in a way nicer scoreboard, along with other lots of other upgrades. While they may have been in the works, they weren't approved until well into DBs tenure

3.) Um, this is his job. While I (along with most other folks here) focus exclusively on only a few sports, he is in charge of ALL varsity sports at Michgan.

Happy to have a discussion about the OL. Miller had a tough assignment, but was getting blown off the ball way to often. Also, too many missed assignments led to free rushers on Gardner. Just my $.02 though.

Led the renovation of Yost, Let the renovation of Crisler, approved the increased salaries for coordinators, and I'm sure countless other things for non-revenue sports.

Getting mad at an AD because A.) the offense line isn't performing where you'd like it to or B.) because you don't like that he treats the football team like a business (which is his job) seems rather short sighted.

In Chicago, there are just too many fellow Wolverines, so I typically don't don't do it, but outside of the Midwest, I'll usually let it fly. Also, whenever someone says Go Blue to me, I always say it back, no matter where I am.

I'm with you bro. Hey, didn't we win a ton a championships back when the team was wearing leather helmets. Why did we ever switch out of those? That was really the beginning of the downfall if you ask me.

How do you feel about coaches receiveing bonuses for chapionships / other success? There are certain differences but I don't see the harm in incentivizing success. It does look silly when it's an individual goal (vs. a team sport), but it's not really that far fetched, and I would bet Brandon has similar clauses in his contract (and Hoke definitely does)

The MBA progream being ranked 11 is ok, but I'd argue that we're a stronger porgram than Stern and CBS, especially outside of finance. Hard to find fault with any of the other schools being ahead of us.

If Nebraska wins the next two games, it's going to be hard to beat Tim Miles. Beilein has had to overcome a bunch (2 first round draft picks, 1 preseason All American) this year, but doing what Tim Miles has done at what has been a basketball tire fire in Nebraska will earn a lot of (derserved) recognition. Should be close.